The weather was great today for a cruise and so many car clubs seemed to be out on the roads today. About 20 cars left from the start point in Belmont and a concurrent cruise starting from Tomato Lake ended up intermingled with many of the Charger Club cars for much of the journey until they took a different turn off from Roe Highway.

The Charger Club cars almost filled the car park at the Bindoon Bakehaus and Cafe where everyone enjoyed a great lunch and some chit chat.

The monthly Charger Club of WA meeting was on tonight. Of course a lot of the talk was about the upcoming Everything Chrysler Day at the Kwinana Motorplex on May 17th. We've nailed down a major sponsor which is great! Wanneroo Chrysler Jeep Dodge Fiat Alfa are on board again which is awesome! To celebrate we're going to take over their car yard at 2 Baretta Road WANGARA on Saturday 18th April, 8am-1pm with as many old school cars as we can! There will be a sausage sizzle and you can get your Everything Chrysler Day entry forms and more! So come along in your classic Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Fiat or Alfa!

In other news regarding the Everything Chrysler Day we will again be welcoming cars from the Studebaker car club and from the R&S Series Valiant Car Club. It also looks like we'll have a few Hillman's coming along! Let's see if any of these cars get out onto the motorkhana track.

We urge people to pre-enter their cars. We can accept limited cars 'on the day' but due to time constraints on the day they can not be judged.

If you want to advertise or sell merch at the Everything Chrysler Day you can sign up for the 'Drifter' package which is just $50 for a business card size advertisement in the show booklet and get some of your merch in the show promotion bag.

Or you can sign up for the 'Pacer' package which gets you a trade display, bigger advertisement in the booklet, merch in the show bag and mentions in the announcements throughout the day, for $180.

You can even go bigger if you want to so get in touch if you're interested!

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02/03/2015 - VALE LEO GEOGHEGAN ( 1936-2015 )

It is with deep sadness and regret that we advise the passing of Leo Geoghegan on the 2nd March.

Leo was a much admired supporter of our club and its major events.

He first came to WA as our guest at the Chrysler Expo 2011, being his first trip west. Following that event, he made subsequent trips west to join in with our members and to make himself available.

Apart from his very successful open wheeler racing achievements, he was instrumental in the development, testing and racing of Pacer’s and Chargers for Chrysler Australia.

Leo was always willing to make himself available to talk to anyone about his experiences in a very relaxed and humorous manner. The information gained from these informal gatherings could never have been obtained other than from Leo himself.

As a result of our clubs contacts through Leo we have made many friends with other Chrysler enthusiasts right across Australia.

Our vice president Kylie Sewell flew over to see Leo last week and spent some special time with him. I know this would have been of comfort to Leo during this time.

Leo was engaged by Chrysler Australia to develop their racing programme during the early 1970s.He made valuable contributions to their aims given his knowledge and experience. All this was achieved on a very limited budget due to local content constraints. The result of all this was that they were able to present very impressive and competitive road cars and race cars. Some of that input and development is still being seen in cars that continue to race today.

Leo was the only race driver to have raced at Bathurst for the Big 3, again another significant achievement.

We will miss Leo and will always hold him in our hearts as an admired racing car driver and friend.

Our thoughts go out to his family and all the motor racing and Chrysler family right across Australia.

No doubt he will be sharing much with his brother Ian (Pete) in the big race track somewhere out there.

More information Ref;www.wheelsmag.com.au

President and Members.

Charger Club of WA

Everything Chrysler

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05/02/2015 - Next meeting Monday 9th Feb

The next meeting is coming up on Monday 9th February. Each meeting reminds us all we're a month closer to the biggest event we've ever produced, the Everything Chrysler Day 2015 at Kwinana Motorplex. We hope you're all getting your car ready! From a daily driver, work horse, show car or drag car! Even if it's an unfinished project! You don't want to miss this one. May 17th 2015.